Helvetia Builds on NEVIS to React Faster to Changing Customer Needs

Helvetia, one of the leading Swiss insurers, has decided to expand its partnership with AdNovum, the Swiss leader in identity and access management. To speed up secure deployment of new digital offerings, it introduces the new administration platform of AdNovum's NEVIS Security Suite by the end of this year.

Helvetia’s aim is to further strengthen its position in the market by executing its helvetia 20.20 strategy, focusing on business agility and new digital offerings to deliver outstanding customer experiences. A key factor in achieving this aim is to reduce time to market for digital offerings.

“The new administration platform of AdNovum's Security Suite NEVIS enables our product development and operations teams to quickly deploy security infrastructures, following best practices, in an agile and automated manner. We can now react faster to changing customer needs”, says Mr. Harald Müller, Head of Web Access Services at Helvetia.

With NEVIS' new administration platform nevisAdmin4, Helvetia's product development teams can conveniently cater to security needs as part of the development process. This leads to shorter deployment times and guarantees that security is built into new services from the start, and not as an afterthought. nevisAdmin4 integrates seamlessly into existing infrastructures.

Mohamed Abdel-Gaber, Head of Sales and Business Development NEVIS, comments: “We are very pleased to win Helvetia, a renowned Swiss insurer, as one of the first customers for our new administration platform. This deployment helps moving the security infrastructure at Helvetia to an agile state and will bring the company closer to its customers.”

About the Helvetia Group
In 160 years, the Helvetia Group has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful international insurance group. Today, Helvetia has subsidiaries in its home market Switzerland as well as in the countries that make up the Europe market area: Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain. With its Specialty Markets market area, Helvetia is also present in France and in selected regions worldwide. Some of its investment and financing activities are managed through subsidiaries and fund companies in Luxembourg. The Group is headquartered in St.Gallen, Switzerland.
Helvetia is active in the life and non-life business, and also offers customized specialty lines and reinsurance cover. Its business activities focus on retail customers as well as small and medium-sized companies and larger corporates. With some 6,600 employees, the company provides services to more than 5 million customers. With a business volume of CHF 8.64 billion, Helvetia generated underlying earnings of CHF 502.4 million in the 2017 financial year. The registered shares of Helvetia Holding are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the symbol HELN.

The NEVIS Security Suite is the security solution of the renowned Swiss software company AdNovum. NEVIS has been protecting the portals of banks, insurance companies and governmental authorities for over 20 years, and is deployed by companies around the world today. The NEVIS Security Suite is Switzerland's market leader for identity and access management and protects over 80% of all e-banking transactions. In 2017, Experton Group voted NEVIS Security as the"Security Leader" in Germany.

The Swiss software company AdNovum offers its customers comprehensive support in the fast and secure digitization of existing business processes and the implementation of new business ideas from consulting and conception to implementation and operation. AdNovum's customer base includes renowned companies from the finance, insurance, telecommunications, manufacturing and logistics industry as well as several federal offices and cantons.

AdNovum was founded in 1988. At our headquarters in Zurich and our offices in Bern, Lausanne, Budapest, Lisbon, Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore, we employ over 600 staff today. In Germany, NEVIS is represented by the Munich-based NEVIS Security GmbH.